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Securities and Derivative Litigation: Quarterly Update - November 2024

Highlight the steady pace of filings for artificial intelligence-related securities class actions; Review a flurry of decisions from the Delaware Court of Chancery suggesting that Caremark liability requires more than...more

Securities and Derivative Litigation: Quarterly Update - November 2023

With just one quarter remaining in 2023, securities and derivative litigation continues to develop with new standards being articulated or clarified, particularly by decisions within the Second Circuit: The Second...more

Securities & Derivative Litigation: Quarterly Update - Q2 2021

As securities class actions are being filed at a slower pace over the past year, a few notable developments continued into the second quarter of 2021. In particular, the U.S Supreme Court clarified an important issue...more

SCOTUS Creates Flexibility to Deny Class Cert. in Securities Fraud Suits

Key Takeaways - The Supreme Court clarified its prior securities class-action decisions in Basic v. Levinson (“Basic”), Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co. (“Halliburton II”), and Amgen Inc v. Connecticut Retirement...more

In Halliburton II, SCOTUS Upholds Presumption of Reliance in Securities Fraud Class Actions, but Allows Defendants to Rebut with...

In a decision that has important implications for both plaintiffs and defendants in securities class actions, the Supreme Court of the United States in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. (Halliburton II), No. 13-317...more

SCOTUS Ruling in Amgen Case Allows Plaintiffs to Certify Securities Classes Without Proving Materiality

In Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, No. 11-1085, 568 U.S. ___ (2013), decided on February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that, in a case...more

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